Nov Check In Thread
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Name: Eric
I received my second of a two-shot series of shingles vaccines on Tuesday. By Tuesday night I became very ill. Almost passed out in the night on my way back to bed from the restroom, went down and hit my head. Laid on the floor for a while and then finally made my way back to bed. I called in sick on Wednesday which according to my colleges has never happened before and I have worked at the same company for 21 years. Diet wise I could not take in enough calories for a few days and while I did exercise through Tuesday night after that it was out of the question. Finally feeling some better this morning. Not sure if I will exercise today or not.
Yeah those shingles shots are absolutely the worst!!!! I had terrible reactions (fever and migraines etc) with both of them. The first was so bad I ****almost*** did not want the second. However with the second I was prepared and when it hit me in the middle of the night I had meds around. Hope you are feeling better soon. For me 4 days and all done.
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@erjones11 That is awful! I had the shingles vaccines last year and they were very painful, but nothing like your experience. Just take care and I hope you feel better soon.
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Name: missperfectpitch
Height: 5'4"
Total weight lost: About 43 pounds
Time it took to lose: 1 year and 2 months
How long in maintenance: I hit my goal weight in the beginning of January 2018, but officially started maintenance in mid-March 2018 after figuring out my calories for a couple of months.
Maintenance weight range: 108-111.5
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 109.8
Average weight recorded from January: 111
Average weight recorded from February: 110.8
Average weight recorded from March: 110.6
Average weight recorded from April: 110.0
Average weight recorded from May: 109.9
Average weight recorded for June: 111.2
Average weight recorded for July: 111.9
Average weight recorded for August: 111.9
Average weight recorded for September: 112.6
Average weight recorded for Oct: 112.2
Week of..
Nov 2: 111.7 (trend 112.0)
Nov 9: 111 (trend 111.6)
Nov 16: 111.4 (trend (111.5)
Nov 23: 110.7 (trend 111.1)
Nov 30:
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Still continuing to trend downwards back into the middle of my range! Of course, with the holidays, holiday parties, lots of baking, and a week-long vacation thrown in over the next month, I'm unlikely to keep trending downwards. I'm hoping to get back to 109.5-110, which is where I'm most comfortable at, though I'll still be satisfied with staying in the 110.5 range over the next few weeks.4 -
@erjones11 I hope you're feeling better now - that's a pretty terrible reaction! I just had my first yesterday and have only had a bit of soreness. Give yourself enough time to fully recover and don't push back into things too quickly!1
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reversemigration wrote: »@erjones11 I hope you're feeling better now - that's a pretty terrible reaction! I just had my first yesterday and have only had a bit of soreness. Give yourself enough time to fully recover and don't push back into things too quickly!
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@erjones11 That is awful! I had the shingles vaccines last year and they were very painful, but nothing like your experience. Just take care and I hope you feel better soon.
Thank you Kgirl. Yes very painful. I am glad yours was not like mine. I learned my sister had a similar reaction as me on her second dose as well. Genetics
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SummerSkier wrote: »
Yeah those shingles shots are absolutely the worst!!!! I had terrible reactions (fever and migraines etc) with both of them. The first was so bad I ****almost*** did not want the second. However with the second I was prepared and when it hit me in the middle of the night I had meds around. Hope you are feeling better soon. For me 4 days and all done.
Thank you Skier, I think I am almost over it.0 -
Hi I'm new here. But not new to maintenance. I hope this time I actually do just that this time...
Age: 40 (until December 3rd)
Sex: Female
Height: 5'11"
Total weight lost: 16 pounds
Time it took to lose: 2ish months
How long in maintenance: Couple weeks
Goal Weight: 150 (Hit November 8th)
Maintenance weight range: 147 - 153
Average weight recorded for September: 160.1
Average weight recorded for October: 154.0
Week of...
November 3: 150.8 (Trend Weight: 151.3)
November 10: 148.8 (Trend: 150.2)
November 17: 148.8 (Trend: 149.3)
November 24: 148.4 (Trend: 148.7)
Successes: Was able to enjoy a brewery and fried food yesterday and still lose a tad bit of weight. I've got my Thanksgiving meal plan worked out and food bought. Going to try and dry brine the turkey for the first time. I'll let you know how that goes. Not logging this Thursday or next Tuesday (my birthday) so we'll also see how that goes...
Struggles: From now until vacation I have 12 work days left. My coworkers are going to learn how obnoxious I get when I'm excited about something! Lol
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Name:Pam
Age: 61
Height:5'5
Total weight lost:200
Time it took to lose:Started 1/2016
How long in maintenance: 2 years
Maintenance weight range:130-135
Average weight recorded from January:131.75
Average weight recorded from February:130.75
Average weight recorded from March:132.1
Average weight recorded from April:133.5
Average weight recorded from May:132.5
Average weight recorded from June:132.08
Average weight recorded for July:132.15
Average weight recorded for August: 132.15
Average weight recorded for September: 132.28
Average weight recorded for Oct 133.1
Week of..
Nov 3 131.8
Nov 10 132.2
Nov 17132
Nov 24132.2
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Staying steady. I weight in yesterday morning as I was out late last night with a late dinner so I knew my weight would be up this am. It was but not by much. Thanksgiving at my house going to be sending leftovers home with my children so I will not be tempted to eat them. I am thankful I found this group., you all have been encouraging with this weight lost journey.7 -
HEAVIEST weight: 175.4 in early 2013.
Total Weight lost: 30 pounds
Time it took to lose: ~6 months
How long in maintenance: Since July 2018 -- but with some fluctuation outside of goal range.
Maintenance weight range: 142 - 148 (and not sure that's the right answer)
Average weight recorded from 2017 (12 months): 163.8
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 150.7
Average weight recorded from January: 148.4
Average weight recorded from February: 146.3
Average weight recorded from March: 143.2
Average weight recorded from April: 143.0
Average weight recorded from May: 144.1
Average weight recorded from June: 145.6
Average weight recorded from July: 146.5
Average weight recorded from August: 145.8
Average weight recorded from September:143.2
Average weight recorded from October: 142.3
Average weight Week of...
October 28 - November 3: 143.8
November 4 = 10: 145.1
November 11 - 17: 144.7
November 18 - 24: 144.6
November 25 - December 1:
Success of the week: I seem to have been able to stop the slow gain that started near the beginning of October. My daily weight never got out of my maintenance range, but I was getting close. I actually had started to see it come off the peak last week; this week was really just maintaining pretty well.
Struggle of the week: As steady as I've been, I still seem to be just a little over the goal I have for my average weight. Holiday week coming up may be a challenge. If I can hold steady, even a little higher than I like, that should be ok for the coming week.
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Name: Ben
Age: 51
Height: 6'
Total weight lost: ~55 lbs
Time it took to lose: 8 months
How long in maintenance: Since ~ December 2018
Maintenance weight range: 165-170
Average weight recorded for December:165.8
Average weight recorded for January: 167.3
Average weight recorded for February: 167.2
Average weight recorded for March: 166.5
Average weight recorded for April: 162.9
Average weight recorded for May: 161.5
Average weight recorded for June: 160.9
Average weight recorded for July: 160.5
Average weight recorded for August: 160.9
Average weight recorded for September: 161.3
Average weight recorded for October: 161.7
Week of...
November 3rd: 161.2 (trend 161.9)
November 11th: 163.6 (trend 161.7)
November 17th: 159.7 (trend 161.8)
November 24th: 160.1 (trend 161.5)
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: A relatively uneventful week. Still some calorie rollercoastering, but generally things are okay. Having a holiday meal at work this week shouldn't make much of a difference - we generally don't have time to sit down for long, and I can stick to the healthier stuff.
Have a great week, everyone!3 -
Name Lesley
Age: 69
Height: 155 cm (5’ 1”)
Total weight lost: 22.5 kg (approx. 50 lb)
Time it took to lose: 9 months
How long in maintenance: 7 months
Maintenance weight range: 48 – 51 kg (106 – 112 lbs)
Average weight recorded from 2018: max 72.5 kg in July, 56 kg in Dec
Average weight recorded for January: 54.7 kg
Average weight recorded for February: 53.3 kg
Average weight recorded for March: 51.7 kg
Average weight recorded for April: 50.2 kg (110.7 lb)
Average weight recorded for May: 49.9 kg (110 lb)
Average weight recorded for June: 48.7 kg (107 lb)
Average weight recorded for July: 48.5 kg (107 lb)
Average weight recorded for August: 48.1 kg (106 lb)
Average weight recorded for September: 47.8 kg (105 lb)
Average weight recorded in October: 48 kg (106 lb)
November 4th: 48.2 kg
November 11th: 48.6 kg
November 18th: 48.6 kg
November 25th: 48.3 kg
Successes/struggles: : I had a quiet week at home for once, recharging the batteries. I’ve eaten out a couple of times, got to the gym 4 times, managed some cardio exercise every day. (I do short cardio routines – 10 to 20 minutes – once or twice a day.)
Looking back over the last few months I have managed to lift my weight over 48 kg which is a success. However, the trend according to my Libra app is going down again just now with no future date for achieving 49 kg.
We don't have Thanksgiving here in Britain and I doubt that my daughter-in-law is feeling much like celebrating anything this year, so there are no eating challenges on the horizon until we get closer to Christmas.
We have finally heard that the test results are back for my son's diagnosis, they are meeting with the Neurology team this afternoon. I'm fidgety, can't settle. I'll go to the gym and try to keep busy for a few hours.
See you in December
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@lesdarts180, just wanted to send ((( ))) to you and your family.
I was in your position 2 1/2 years ago and know what the uncertainty is like.
I hope the diagnosis goes well, h.2 -
Name: Kathryn
Age: 51
Height: 5'4"
Total Weight lost: ~80 lbs
Time it took to lose: 2 years 3 months
How long in maintenance: I called maintenance in July 2016, but I continued to slowly lose until December of 2017. I have been in maintenance since December 2017
Maintenance weight range: 115 - 120 lbs
Average weight recorded from 2018: 118.8
Average weight recorded from December: 116.9
Average weight recorded from January: 115.9
Average weight recorded from February: 115.4
Average weight recorded from March: 117.2
Average weight recorded from April: 116.8
Average weight recorded from May: 116.2
Average weight recorded for June: 116.2
Average weight recorded for July: 115.5
Average weight recorded for August: 114.0
Average weight recorded for September: 114.0
Average weight recorded for Oct: 113.7
Week of..
Nov 3: 113.6 scale/ 113.5 trend
Nov 10: 114.8 scale/ 113.8 trend
Nov 17: 112.8 scale/ 113.7 trend
Nov 24: 112.0 scale/ 113.2 trend
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I never did check in yesterday. Still down a little this week, but I'm ok with that going into Thanksgiving this week. I'm sure it will be coming back up soon. And my weight is usually lowest on Saturday and Sunday and then comes back up during the week.
@lesdarts180 Sending good thoughts and prayers your way.3 -
Thanks for the kind thoughts @middlehaitch and @kgirlhart , much appreciated.
We have some good news - well, as good as one can hope for in the circumstances - it appears to be a fairly low grade, non-malignant tumour. He has been referred to a hospital closer to where he lives and has an appointment to discuss a treatment plan later this week.
I'm hoping to sleep a bit better now, not quite such dark thoughts going through my mind at 3 o'clock in the morning.6 -
Name: Maddie
Age: 63.5
Height: 5’8.5”
Total weight lost: 75.3
Time it took to lose: 3.33 years
How long in maintenance: Since April 25 2019 (7 months)
Maintenance weight range: 153-155
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 168
Average weight recorded from April 2019: 153✅✅
Average weight recorded from May 2019: 154.3✅
Average weight recorded from June 2019: 154.8✅
Average weight recorded from July 2019: 155.9💛
Average weight recorded from August 2019: 156.7🧡
Average weight recorded from September 2019: 156.5🧡
Average weight recorded from October 2019: 157.1❌
Week Ending:
11/02 155.0 Avg:156.14 Trend: 155.5💛
11/09 156.0 Avg:155.2 Trend: 155.4💛
11/16 154.8 Avg:155.23 Trend: 154.9❣️✅
11/25 155.6. Avg:155.43. Trend: 155.8💛
Monthly Average so far: 155.3, 155.22, 155.23, 155.43
Yearly average so far: 154.77, 154.77, 154.77, 154.79
Successes of the week: I’m in the 155’s despite eating out, family guests, and travel!
Struggles: Letting what others eat dissuade me from eating what I know I should. Making progress!!
Goal: 155 or lower on New Year’s 2020.
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Age: 31
Height: 5'8"
Total weight lost: 70 pounds
Time it took to lose: 4 months
How long in maintenance: 5 months
Maintenance weight range: 145 - 149
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): NA
Average weight recorded from January: NA
Average weight recorded from February: 214.75
Average weight recorded from March: 204.04
Average weight recorded from April: 187.42
Average weight recorded from May: 174.18
Average weight recorded from June: 164.21
Average weight recorded from July: 158.2
Average weight recorded for August: 155.54
Average weight recorded for September: 151.2
Average weight recorded for October: 148.3
Week of...
November 5: 147.3 (Trend Weight: 147.3)
November 12: 147.3 (Trend: 147.0)
November 19: 146.8 (Trend: 147.2)
November 26: 145.7 (Trend:146.4)
Welcome to November!
Successes: Trend line going the other way. I'm still trying to find out where my low weight / maint range should be. I know I'm close to where I want to be but we'll see where I settle in. I'm thinking of trying 140 - 145 and see how I feel through out the day and during my running. Starting to get push ups and situps / planks integrated into my morning and evening routine. I want to eventually get to being able to knock out 100 / 100 twice a day.
Struggles: Finding time to run with 10 hour day shift while getting a proper amount of sleep to be prepared for a full active day at work. Think I might try to do 5 runs over 4 days with one 2 a day to get through the 5 runs I have a week
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amckholmes wrote: »Name: Alexandria
Age: 51
Height: 5’ 3”
Total weight lost: 55 lbs
Time it took to lose: 8 months
How long in maintenance: 4 months
Maintenance range: 110-114
Average weight recorded for August: 117.6
Average weight recorded for September: 114.0
Average weight recorded for October: 112.0
Week of..
Nov 4: 110.0
Nov 11: 109.6
Nov 18: 108.4
Nov 25: 108.2
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week:
This next week I Spending the week in the US with family to celebrate their Thanksgiving. No food scale with me (on purpose) so guessing at amounts, eating in restaurants several times and eating food that I didn’t prepare myself for an entire week. A true test of maintenance in the making.7 -
Name: Spencerport
Age: 39
Height: 6'1"
Total weight lost: 105lbs
Time it took to lose: 18 months
How long in maintenance: 3 years
Maintenance weight range: 195-200lbs
Week of:
Nov 2: 201.2
Nov 9: 202.4
Nov 16: 202.8
Nov 23: 199
Nov 30:
Success: Tracking real hard on my calories. Dropped 3.8lbs in a week.9 -
I'm new to maintenance. I didn't log monthly totals.
Starting weight: 222
Current weight: 127
How long maintaining: 1 month
Successes struggles: weight went up 5lbs in the last month when I increased calories and I only upped a little, I'm hoping it'll go back down as I hadn't been eating more than 100 exercise calories back. All I can think of is it's glycogen. I've been discouraged and not in the mood to work out as hard because of this. I'm a little nervous about Thanksgiving as I've planned to enjoy it and not worry about calories but don't want to gain more weight.6 -
I'm new to maintenance. I didn't log monthly totals.
Starting weight: 222
Current weight: 127
How long maintaining: 1 month
Successes struggles: weight went up 5lbs in the last month when I increased calories and I only upped a little, I'm hoping it'll go back down as I hadn't been eating more than 100 exercise calories back. All I can think of is it's glycogen. I've been discouraged and not in the mood to work out as hard because of this. I'm a little nervous about Thanksgiving as I've planned to enjoy it and not worry about calories but don't want to gain more weight.
Maintenance does that. When you first increase calories you will retain more water and have more waist in your system. Don’t give up on your exercise you need what made you lose successful help you maintain. Easing in to maintenance by slowly increasing calories helped me figure things out.4 -
Name: Eric
Age: 50
Height: 6’
Total weight lost: 85 pounds
Time it took to lose: 4 years
How long in maintenance: Since September 2018
Maintenance weight range: 150-155
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 180
Average weight recorded from 2019 (10 months): 156
Average weight recorded from January 2019: 155
Average weight recorded from February 2019: 155
Average weight recorded from March 2019: 154
Average weight recorded from April 2019: 155
Average weight recorded from May 2019: 156
Average weight recorded from June 2019: 158
Average weight recorded from July 2019: 158
Average weight recorded from August 2019: 156
Average weight recorded from September 2019: 157
Average weight recorded from October 2019: 158
Week of...
11/1/2019: 154.1
11/9/2019: 158.1
11/16/2019: 158.1
11/23/2019: 157.4
11/30/2019: 160.3
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Though my weight was up this week was good. Guessing some of the sweets and salt from Thanksgiving and yesterday is hanging around water wise. I kept with exercise program all week though I am fighting a bit of bicep tendinitis. Thanksgiving morning, I lifted and rode the bike. I kept within calorie goal all days.
I did enjoy the thanksgiving feast, some whiskey and had cake on my mom’s birthday yesterday all within goals though. I expect this spike to be water and to be gone in a week. Though looking at November as a trend does not look good.
Hope you all enjoyed the holiday. Keep on keeping on!
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Name: Shirley
Age: 63
Height: 5'1"
Total weight lost: 36
Time it took to lose: not sure
How long in maintenance: over 3 years
Maintenance weight range: 110-114
Average weight recorded from 2018: 109.7
Average weight recorded from January: 111.3
Average weight recorded from February: 111
Average weight recorded from March: 110
Average weight recorded from April: 111
Average weight recorded from May: 112
Average weight recorded for June: 111.5
Average weight recorded for July: 111
Average weight recorded for August: 113
Average weight recorded for September: 114
Average weight recorded for Oct: 112.8
Week of..
Nov 2: 113
Nov 9: 114
Nov 16: 110
Nov 23: 110
Nov 30: 110
Feeling really good about this past week. Even Thanksgiving didn't get me off track.7 -
Name: missperfectpitch
Height: 5'4"
Total weight lost: About 43 pounds
Time it took to lose: 1 year and 2 months
How long in maintenance: I hit my goal weight in the beginning of January 2018, but officially started maintenance in mid-March 2018 after figuring out my calories for a couple of months.
Maintenance weight range: 108-111.5
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 109.8
Average weight recorded from January: 111
Average weight recorded from February: 110.8
Average weight recorded from March: 110.6
Average weight recorded from April: 110.0
Average weight recorded from May: 109.9
Average weight recorded for June: 111.2
Average weight recorded for July: 111.9
Average weight recorded for August: 111.9
Average weight recorded for September: 112.6
Average weight recorded for Oct: 112.2
Week of..
Nov 2: 111.7 (trend 112.0)
Nov 9: 111 (trend 111.6)
Nov 16: 111.4 (trend (111.5)
Nov 23: 110.7 (trend 111.1)
Nov 30: 111.6 (trend 111.4)
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: A bit of a bump up in my weight, but that was not unexpected this week with eating out Wednesday night, Thanksgiving on Thursday, and monthly hormonal water retention. The next several weeks will be more of the same with birthday week, holiday parties week, a vacation week + Christmas, then New Year's. I've already planned out those weeks to be surplus weeks and banked calories for them, but I'm still planning to keep my exercise and steps up to try to stay within my range.4 -
I don’t know how I ever missed this before, but I’ll participate for December!2
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HEAVIEST weight: 175.4 in early 2013.
Total Weight lost: 30 pounds
Time it took to lose: ~6 months
How long in maintenance: Since July 2018 -- but with some fluctuation outside of goal range.
Maintenance weight range: 142 - 148 (and not sure that's the right answer)
Average weight recorded from 2017 (12 months): 163.8
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 150.7
Average weight recorded from January: 148.4
Average weight recorded from February: 146.3
Average weight recorded from March: 143.2
Average weight recorded from April: 143.0
Average weight recorded from May: 144.1
Average weight recorded from June: 145.6
Average weight recorded from July: 146.5
Average weight recorded from August: 145.8
Average weight recorded from September: 143.2
Average weight recorded from October: 142.3
Average weight recorded from November: 144.4
Average weight Week of...
October 28 - November 3: 143.8
November 4 = 10: 145.1
November 11 - 17: 144.7
November 18 - 24: 144.6
November 25 - December 1: 144.9
Success of the week: My November weight trend has been amazingly consistent even though it's up a pound from November 1. October wasn't a good month, so at least November didn't bring another BIG gain; just a small one. I'm still in the middle of my range, but I've had some crazy days when the scale was way up (or down). I need to remind myself that despite this small gain, I am actually maintaining pretty well. Not ideal, but pretty good.
Struggle of the week: I ended November on a high weight. Oh well. My trending weight was actually pretty flat all month, but it's higher in my range than I want. But still in range.
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Name: Spencerport
Age: 39
Height: 6'1"
Total weight lost: 105lbs
Time it took to lose: 18 months
How long in maintenance: 3 years
Maintenance weight range: 195-200lbs
Week of:
Nov 2: 201.2
Nov 9: 202.4
Nov 16: 202.8
Nov 23: 199
Nov 30: Not Recorded
Struggles: Severe Migraine from Wed afternoon through Sat morning. Didn't give a damn about the scale with pain I was in. Still tracking hard.9
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